Saturday, January 29, 2022

Saturday, January 29, 2022

Tonight's picture was taken in January of 2006. Mattie was three years old and had come home from preschool that day with a bunch of his artistic creations. That school year, Mattie's symbol was the MOON, as each child received a symbol that started with the same letter as the child's first name. It was within that classroom that Mattie became "Mattie Moon!" It was a name that stuck for many years to come. Even today, we look up at the moon and wonder if our Mattie Moon is looking down on us. 

Quote of the day: Today's coronavirus update from Johns Hopkins. 

• Number of people diagnosed with the virus: 74,187,602
• Number of people who died from the virus: 883,677

We had another dusting of snow last night. Peter snapped some photos. This is a Chinese Maple in our backyard. Peter had a flashlight on the snow coming down, which you can see as streaks of snow. 

Indie, our cat, LOVES this picture window. She spends a lot of time in this living space. Peter captured the window at night, as the snow was falling. 

We love feeding the birds. We did this in Washington, DC too. Here we have about six feeders and we get all sorts of birds. Today we were visited by a red bellied woodpecker. 

After my usual morning routine, as soon as I got my dad resting in his reclining chair (around 11:30am), we went back at it...... opening and sorting boxes. I only do this on the weekends when Peter can help me. He is doing the majority of this nasty task, as he opens, unwraps, throws out all the paper debris and disassembles the packing boxes. Then my mom and I work on putting the items away. Today's task was overwhelming for me because we sifted through all the items that came out of my mom's pantry in Los Angeles. I assure you it was a ton. I was besides myself and I just did not have the energy to take apart my pantry to integrate their things. So instead of taking a deep breath, I went on a screaming tirade. That is one thing about caregiving non-stop..... it changes my personality. I am tired and have a short fuse. Any case, after my tirade, I worked through the problem which meant pulling apart my pantry and reorganizing everything. It was a task that took HOURS. I think moving is hard enough, but I have had to balance my own move, then my parents move, and unpack twice. It is a lot on a good day, but then factor in caregiving, and it is the perfect storm for me.